On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jacques Carette <carette at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> I have heard generic programming described tongue-in-cheek as "the kind of
> polymorphism that a language does not (yet) have". I find this description
> rather apt, and it matches fairly what I see called 'generic' in various
> communities. But who said this, where and when?
>> Jacques
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I don't have the book handy (it was from the library), but I seem to
remember reading something along those lines in ``Datatype-Generic
Programming: International Spring School, SSDGP 2006, Nottingham, UK,
April 24-27, 2006, Revised Lectures'', edited by Backhouse, Gibbons,
Hinze, and Jeuring.
There's a lead for you, at least!
Regards,
Brad